Contemporary Photography and Art 2

Display Schedule

Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
307ECON2	exam	4	2 lecture hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 82 to 102 hours of self-study	English

Subject guarantor

Tomáš DVOŘÁK, Josef LEDVINA, Michal ŠIMŮNEK

Name of lecturer(s)

Tomáš DVOŘÁK, Josef LEDVINA, Michal ŠIMŮNEK

Mo 13/02

Introduction

Mo 20/02

Strange Tools / Strange Pictures

Why to make pictures when there are already so many of them? About the pictures as tools and pictures as art.

Mo 27/02

Seminar

Reading: Hito Steyerl: In Defence of the Poor Image

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/

Mo 6/3

Politics and Aesthetics of Obsolescence: Analog Photography in Digital Age

Mo 13/3

Authenticity and Artifice: Performative strategies in Contemporary Art Practice

Mo 20/3

Seminar

Reading:

Margaret Iversen: “Analogue: On Zoe Leonard and Tacita Dean”. In: Photography, Trace, and Trauma, 2019, 33-47.

Mo 27/3

Art as Product and Product as Art

Why and how contemporary artists work with diverse technieques developed in the domains of advertisement?

Mo 3/4

No lecture – plein air

Mo 10/4

No lecture – Easter

Mo 17/4

Transparency Persistent, Lost or Regained

Status of Photographic Transparency in times of Computer-Generated Imagery

Mo 24/4

Seminar and consultation of essay topics

Reading: Alva Noë: Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, Hill and Wang 2016.

Mo 1/5

No lecture - Labour

Learning outcomes

The student is oriented in contemporary art, understands contemporary theories of art and photography, is able to think about photography in the context of current discussions about technical images and is able to reflect on some of the topics discussed in his/her own creative work.

Prerequisites and other requirements

Literature

Required literature:

Heather Davis, “Art in the Anthropocene,” Posthuman Glossary, ed. Rosi Braidotti, Maria Hlavajova, London, New York: Bloomsberry Academic, 2018, pp. 63-65.

Steyerl, Hito, Florian Ebner, Doris Krystof, Marcella Lista, Nora M Alter, Teresa Castro, Florian Ebner, et al. Hito Steyerl - I Will Survive: Films and Installations, 2020.

Hito Steyerl, “Duty Free Art,” Duty Free Art. Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War. New York: Verso, 2017, pp. 134-159.

Hito Steyerl, I Dreamed a Dream: Politics in the Age of Mass Art Production, Former West, 13.3.2013, http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/dreamed-dream-politics-age-mass-art-production/.

Recommended literature:

Hal Foster, “An Archival Impulse,” October, 2004, pp. 3-22.

Amy Bryzgel, “Artistic Reenactments in East European Performance Art, 1960-present,” Artmargins online, 2018, http://www.artmargins.com/index.php/featured-articles-sp-829273831/812-artistic-reenactments-in-east-europe-introduction

Evaluation methods and criteria

Active participation in the discussion (preparation of 3-4 questions for discussion) and preparation for the seminar by reading the assigned texts. During the course, you are required to submit a written work.

The written paper must be a minimum of 7000 characters including spaces. Choose a topic or issue that you are interested in (and have addressed during the seminar). The text should be a defense of your position on the topic, using primary or secondary sources that you will argue with or use to support your claims. Please send texts to pledvina@gmail.com. The exam will take the form of a discussion of the submitted text.

Note

Schedule for winter semester 2023/2024:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon	room 112 Room No. 112 (Lažanský palác) LEDVINA J. 11:30–13:05 (lecture parallel1)
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Mon	11:30–13:05	Josef LEDVINA	Room No. 112 Lažanský palác		lecture parallel1

The subject is a part of the following study plans

Photography EN - Bachelor - 2022 (Required subjects)